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ment was increased when our conductor took us to a large 

 trench, fifty rood long and twelve feet wide, which was abso- 

 lutely filled up with pine-apples : they so completely over- 

 ran the estate at one time, that he was obliged to root them 

 up for the purpose of preventing their further extension. On 

 this estate there is a walk of fruit-trees nearly a mile long, 

 consisting of orange, lime, lemon, mammy-apple, sour sop, 

 cocoa-nut, and wild cherry trees. 



Dinner was serv^ed up at five in the greatest elegance of 

 style; it consisted of two courses, and included every rarity 

 the colony produced, aided by European productions. There 

 was excellent wine, London porter in its prime, and bottled 

 table beer. The negro attendants displayed great dexterity in 

 laying the cloth, and waiting at table. Every thing appeared 

 like clock-work : not the least confusion was perceptible, 

 though there were more than half-a-dozen servants in the 

 room. 



All the party had, by the persuasion of our kind host, de- 

 termined on remaining all night. I was surprised about nine 

 o'clock by seeing the tables cleared away, and half a dozen 

 hammocks brought in and hung up to rings placed for that 

 purpose on the beams, two mattrasscs were made up on the 

 tloor, and a third on the sofa. This manner of accommoda- 

 tion I understood was practised throughout the colonies. As 1 



